Word: ulcer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the old retailing business. This is the land of overcrowded sidewalks, of subways and skyscrapers. This is the land of the central location where the bargain hunting customer first clashed with the ulcer-conscious executive...
...move has only served to heighten the ulcer-forming problems of the merchandising executive. All the old problems of daily sales reports, increased expense problems, profit responsibilities, slow selling merchandise, fashion trends, and long hours have taken on a new suburban slant. The result has been to make the retailer's job one of the toughest and most unpredictable in any field. Rapid turn overs in executive positions are the rule, not the exception...
...were to X-ray every Oscar," says Movie Producer Sam Katzman, waving a cigar the size of a shinny stick, "you'd find every one of them has an ulcer inside." "Jungle Sam" Katzman probably will never have either an Oscar or an ulcer. He specializes in such surefire blends of sex and adventure as Serpent of the Nile and Battle of Rogue River, plus a stream of quickies for the cap-pistol set (Chief of the Senecas, Jet Commandos), and a seemingly endless chain-ten so far-of Jungle Jim pictures. Jungle Sam never spends more than half...
...child with ulcers is much like an adult with ulcers: the brighter-than-average, tense type, who bottles up his emotions. (Dr. Girdany's patients did not kick and scream the way many kids would if offered a "barium breakfast," but suffered in silence.) Such children may carry their ulcer troubles into adult life -so that tense little tykes grow into big, tense tycoons...
Eleven-year-old Linda Brown of Whittier, Calif, made TV screens across the U.S. for a few minutes last week, and for a good, heart-warming reason. Virtually blind from infancy, because of ulcer scars on her eyeballs (probably the result of overstrong silver nitrate being dropped in her eyes), Linda is making a remarkable recovery...